[Qtractor-devel] [ANN] Qtractor 0.8.6 - A Winter'18 Release!

[Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...>]

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Hey there!

  Qtractor 0.8.6 (winter'18 beta) is out!

Not just special, maybe not even great or awesome but kind of 'huge'
thanks to Andreas Müller and Holger Dehnhardt for their intrepid
contributions in code for this one significant notch up towards
mythical v1.0 -- hell will break loose and freeze in the process, mind
you and then, who cares? :)

As "they" say and without further ado...

Change-log for this epic release:
- - Added LV2_UI_updateRate option support.
- - Added brand new option to deactivate plugins only if they can
produce sound cf. main menu Track/Auto Deactivate (by Andreas Müller
aka. schnitzeltony, thanks).
- - Workaround native file dialogs hang up by setting parent widget to
NULL; it should be noted that dialogs now get an own entry in the
task-bar (also by Andreas Müller aka. schnitzeltony, thanks).
- - Added ARM NEON acceleration support (by Andreas Müller aka.
schnitzeltony, thanks).
- - Track count "limit" and a "Delta" mode flag, for momentary and
encoded controllers support, have been added to MIDI Controllers
generic mapping (cf. View/Controllers...; after an original
pull-request by Holger Dehnhardt, thanks).
- - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
- - Pinned current/hi-lighted track dangling after removal.
- - An anti-flooding timer is now in place in MIDI Controller assignment
(aka. MIDI learn) dialog.
- - Add MMC Track input monitor support.
- - New user preference option: View/Options.../General/Options /Reverse
keyboard modifiers role (Shift/Ctrl), applied to main transport
re-positioning commands: Transport/Backward, Forward, etc.
- - VST Time/Transport information is now also updated as on playing
when in audio export aka. freewheeling mode.
- - LXVST_PATH environment variable now takes precedence over VST_PATH
as Linux-native VST plug-ins search path.
- - MIDI Controllers mapped to non-toggling shortcuts now work as
one-shot triggers, independent of MIDI event value.


Description:
  Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application
written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux,
where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main
infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio
workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

Website:
  http://qtractor.org
  http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
  https://qtractor.sourceforge.io

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- - source tarball:
  http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.6.tar.gz
- - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed):
  http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.6-34.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed):
  http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.6-34.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rp
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- - AppImage [7] packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.6-4.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
  https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git

Wiki (help wanted, always!):
  http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
- - static rendering:
  http://qtractor.org/doc
  http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc
- - user manual & how-to's:
  http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub
  http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf


License:
  Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL
[6]) version 2 or later.


References:

[1]  Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
     http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
     http://qtractor.org

[2]  Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
     cross-platform application and UI development
     http://qt.io/

[3]  JACK Audio Connection Kit
     http://jackaudio.org

[4]  ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
     http://www.alsa-project.org/

[5]  Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
     http://linuxaudio.org

[6]  GPL - GNU General Public License
     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

[7]  AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere
     http://appimage.org/


See also:
  http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1884


Enjoy && Keep the fun.
- --
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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